retitle 388689 tr: character classes don't include locale-specific characters tags 388689 upstream clone 388689 -1 reassign -1 sed retitle -1 sed: character classes don't include locale-specific characters thanks
also sprach Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.22.0720 +0200]: > > piper:~> echo Ü | xxd -ps > > c39c0a > > piper:~> echo Ü | LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 sed -e 'y/[:upper:]/[:lower:]/' | > > xxd -ps > > c39c0a > > I don't believe the character classes are expanded within sed's > transliterate command. You would need to specify them explicitly. > That would be suitable for a wishlist upstream for sed, not coreutils. Argh. I mean to file a bug against tr: $ echo Ü | LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | xxd -ps c39c0a Sorry. I'll clone. > Some vendors have hacked in patches to make the utilities > multibyte aware but none of those patches have been considered > clean enough to incorporate into the upstream source yet. > Debian's maintainer has stated that he does not want to diverge > from upstream this radically. The patches are very messy. The > best course of action would be to get this resolved upstream with > the functionally properly integrated. I agree with the maintainer's decision. I don't think I'll step in to work with upstream because I've not enjoyed my previous attempts to get stuff fixed in coreutils. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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